HTML file redirect

Question

I am not sure if you would do this in the .htacess file but,

I have a page www.website.com/page2.html

How would I make the URL look like www.website.com/page2

Answer 1

With .htaccess under apache you can do the redirect like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [L,R=301] 

As for removing of .html from the url, simply link to the page without .html

<a href="http://www.website.com/page2">page</a>

Answer 2

This should work for you:

example.com/page will display the contents of example.com/page.html

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1.html [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

301 from example.com/page.html to example.com/page

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*\.html\ HTTP/
    RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>